His attempts at defending himself on Twitter tell me that he's actually quite clueless about poker. "I just have good instincts! I am good at live tells! Here's a hand where I lose $40 so I must not be cheating!"

These dates may have been dated Justin was away which would explain a lot.

Also, the hand he does call river and lose, it is possible he knew opponents cards quickly but didnt check suits. Villain could be bluffing or could have it, and he might not have had a chance to double check his crotch.

Either way the guy is clearly doing something untoward, how and who with is what matters now.

I made a spreadsheet with YouTube links for all of Mike's sessions that I could find for 2019. Hopefully somebody will find this useful.

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

I think sessions 21 and 33 are particularly interesting. In these, Mike's posture and demeanour seem to be much different than what we're used to. For one, he's not staring into his crotch during hands. In fact, he often has phone out over the rail, texting or doing whatever. Coincidentally, these seem to be sessions in which Mike the God doesn't seem quite so God-like. Also, these seem to be some of the very few sessions in which Mike does not triple or quadruple his initial buy-in, and even loses in one of them.

According to my data, Mike's results in the Stone's live streams for 2019 are:
~$250,000 in winnings
Winning in 45/47 sessions
~$1100/hour

An important caveat to the above totals is that I did not consider rebuys and add-ons for session profit, I simply used ending stack minus starting stack. But let's be honest, the man does not lose many big pots. I think his actual winnings are probably closer to $220,000.

Someone should pay him a visit. I'm in favour of street justice here.

inb4 $900/hr @ 5/10

The only 2019 sessions he lost were when Justin was in Vegas? LOL

Has this been posted in the thread yet? Because this is GOLD!!!

Having watched a lot of these streams, I am in 2 minds about whether the commentators are in it or not. The god like worship is so cringe, and also 1 or 2 times it looks like they are actually sweating cards as if there is something in it for them. Also the 2 female commentators both have alluded to/made jokes about Mike SuperUsing and I saw this kind of talked down and brushed over. I missed the exact hand now, but there is one where Kasey is saying something like that and the co-commentator just keeps on saying 'MIKE ALWAYS STEPS ON THE GAS' like 4 times.

I however am 100per cent certain that Justin Kuratis is his accomplice. The factt he barely plays and loses when he was in Vegas is so damming. Also implies that it is only a 2 man operation, which kind of makes sense as any more then the stolen money would be diluted so much would it even be worth it.

Also the brash nature of his twitter posts about the allegations is so wishy washy.

I would say that anyone who has played on this game should report this to the police and the relevant gambling commission ASAP.

Justin Kuratis' bank account should certainly be looked into. Giving how these 2 morons have acted, I really wouldn't be shocked if he has been depositing this cash into his bank account as soon as he could. Another thing that the police can look into is their phone records. Maybe they used Signal or Telegram, but hopefully they used SMS and normal phone calls.

If your numbers are correct and we play devils advocate... Lets say he has an absurd real high winrate of 50bb/100 .. Due to Straddles lets say the average big blind is 10. According to your spreadsheet he would have a winrate over those 277 hours (30hands/hour) of 300bb/100. Lets ask cashgame variance calculator how likely such a run would be....

For some reason Image posting doesnt work. So here is the link:

https://imgur.com/ygXiYny

So its defintely less likely than 1 in 4 Million(otherwise the last digit would have been rounded from 0 i suppose) even IF HES THE GOD SENT TO EARTH WHO PLAYED LIVE POKER.
In Particle Physics that would already meet the standards of a discovery. Dont know about DNA odds..
Based on the assumption that the stats Js provided are correct.

Unless the other player has a better hand.

maybe he planned on taking a loss that night and wanted to get out as fast as possible and save a little money. maybe he just got tilted the coolers/ bad runouts were unavoidable losses early?

He's also wearing his hat backwards during the 6/15 and 7/24 streams where he loses and Justin is in Vegas. Goes back to normal on 7/31 where he wins $10k.

Justin Kuratis also seems he may have a issue with alcohol.

He has a youtube channel Vlogging it.

People who have addictions are more likely to be tempted to do unethical things to gain money.

This could help if anyone is trying to date when Justin was away from the poker room and therefore Postel was unable to superuse.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3B...2AcxQ/featured

https://youtu.be/iajF2_mLyts?t=12991

Another session Postle loses and Justin is confirmed to be in Vegas. I just jumped to a random spot but he has his phone out and is texting. Also his phone seems to be on the table or in view most the session which is almost never the case.

What would everyone consider an appropriate response if you were accused of cheating on stream, and you didn’t?

Excellent work! Simply outstanding.

🚩🚩 please note that Mike’s (rare) losing sessions came during the summer ONLY when Justin was in Vegas for the WSOP.



Mike, you pissed away your career as a professional poker player for $250,000-$300,000? You have a young daughter. Did you ever consider the implications of getting caught, and how it might affect her?

I hope that you can crush online poker again. You can hide your identity there. The name Mike Postle will FOREVER be known as a cheater. One of the worst poker cheats in history. I hate it for you, but you deserve all the negative consequences that come your way.

Totally makes sense, I believe even mike himself tried to explain away the phone crotch thing saying he and other players watch the stream. Very misleading but not a lie apparently LOL.

Just finished watching the first part of Joey's investigation... YO THIS FOOL IS CHEATING FOR SURE! AND HIS ACTING IS SO BAD! I know acting, I won several awards back in the day. THIS FOOL COULDN'T LAND AN ACTING CAREER AND NOW HE'S PULLING HIS WEAK ACT ON THE POKER COMMUNITY! This is so sick, this needs to stop!

In his defense he uses his daughter as a prop to gain our sympathy. Yo we dont care about your daughter fool, don't be stealing money from the poker community to support kids you can't afford. Sickest **** i've seen all year. SMH

I am with you on this. The 54 hand is pretty weird though imo. There wasn't too much surprise about the hand in general while it was happening(which is shocking in its own right), but the one commentator says with a little surprise "54!?" like he had just seen the hand for the first time which should be normal but sounded a little strange. Then as the flop was dealt he says the same exact thing with the same inflection, which is strange, because why would he be surprised as if he never saw the hand when he just saw the hand a moment ago? I can maybe rationalize this as the commentator had heard about the hand pre-recording and is overall a bad actor, but they should have tried to act even more shocked imo as that hand is just unreal insane. It almost seemed like they were trying to make it seem less shocking than it actually was, still not sure though, because there was so many insane hands.

I would be more bemused than angry but then again I've never won 220bb/100 over a large sample so I don't really have anything to worry about

almost certainly a +EV decision for him

On it's own it proves nothing. It's just a massive deviation in every other one of his streams. He almost always tends to top-off to the highest stack, and he always plays to the end.

Maybe he was just ill that night. Maybe he had plans, was having an off night, and wanted to leave early.

I'm just looking for anomalies.

Hello sour Balbomb,

If you bothered to look into this before offering your opinion, you would see that she had raised her concerns at the casino, and had them dismissed by the person that is now being accused of colluding with Postle. So she had little choice but to go public if she wanted this aired.

So the fact that she has indeed gone public, even though it reduced her chances of working there again, and any other flak that comes her way, does great credit to her, especially when other commentators and players had identical doubts but kept silent.

honestly, theres very little chance of him being caught. even if law enforcement or gaming commissions get involved, it might be hard to prove at this point. im sure all the evidence has been covered up / destroyed by now. if we really wanted to catch him, it would have had to have been red handed. that said, whats important is the awareness this has brought to the poker community about what he has done and the dangers of rfid on livestream, which is why what Joey and Doug are doing is so ****ing important.

The true test of Mike will be any podcasts he does, if any, and how he does in poker and on stream after this. If he suddenly stops playing, or starts losing massively / changes his style... well thats proof enough in the court of public opinion. being branded a cheat in poker you will not be able to play in any meaningful games and you will be shunned from the community. let him play 1/2 for the rest of his life in florida like that superuser on UB who took Matasow for everything. I think, at minimum, this is Mike's fate in the poker world.

I do hope he goes to jail and has to payback the money he stole but seems like wishful thinking. but his reputation is pretty much ruined unless he continues to crush and proves to actually be the GOAT of all GOATS.

Just contributing to the crotch thing

https://youtu.be/xUMt--bML6o?t=13744

3:49:05 - standard card check with two people standing behind (its 6d5d, not that hard to remember)
3:49:27 - going for the neck extreme tilt "card check" before the camera cuts away, noones behind
3:50:10 - neck extreme tilt "card check" again

Has anyone noted how frequently/what duration he checks his hole cards? Or is this approach just

Also great work to Joey especially for this.

I think it would be helpful if you could do a 30 min video of the most insane hands and try and explain it in a laymen way and then forward it on to the relevant authorities.

BTW I can certainly see live streaming being cracked down on by the gambling authorities now. If these 2 clowns didn't get so greddy and blatant they could have made this last for so much longer, and even if they got caught then have some deniability.

Take the 10 minutes to contact the police, the relevant gambling board and also the higher ups of the casino.